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Do you need a snowblower in Little Canada, MN?

What clears snow in Little Canada

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Little Canada, about 5.3 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.

Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.

A normal Little Canada winter

Snow a year
40 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.1 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
62

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 5.3 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Little Canada

  1. Oct0.5
  2. Nov3.0
  3. Dec10.2
  4. Jan8.3
  5. Feb12.3
  6. Mar4.0
  7. Apr2.1

Snow worth clearing runs from November to April, heaviest in February. Start and service a machine in October.

Little Canada and its neighbours

Little Canada is number 87 of 103 Minnesota towns here for snowfall; Hermantown gets the most at 90 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Vadnais Heights, MN340 inCordless single-stage
Maplewood, MN340 inCordless single-stage
Roseville, MN340 inCordless single-stage
North St. Paul, MN440 inCordless single-stage
White Bear Lake, MN540 inCordless single-stage
Shoreview, MN540 inCordless single-stage

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Snowblowers on a gravel driveway and Single-stage or two-stage.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from U Of Mn St Paul, 5.2 miles from Little Canada. A normal winter, not this winter's forecast. Snow is weighed at 6.24 pounds a cubic foot, fresh and fairly dry; wet spring snow can weigh three times that.